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CHUCK HAGEL deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning.
CHUCK HAGEL I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has n...
CHUCK HAGEL Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.
CHUCK HAGEL He has set aside the charade of Kyoto and he is saying we can do it in a better way, a more responsi...
CHUCK HAGEL nominees are always the responsibility of the president and his team.
CHUCK HAGEL The Democrats, it seems to me, have to be careful not to overreach, not to be too partisan, not to p...
CHUCK HAGEL any straight-thinking American, any straight-thinking citizen of the world.
CHUCK HAGEL important that we get this bill done.
CHUCK HAGEL locked into a bogged-down problem, not dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam.
CHUCK HAGEL The longer we stay, the more problems we are going to have.
CHUCK HAGEL I'd like to see somebody, day to day, minute to minute, in that thing, right now, trying to bring it...
CHUCK HAGEL The longer we stay in Iraq, the more similarities will start to develop, meaning essentially that we...
CHUCK HAGEL The casualties we're taking, the billion dollars a week we're putting in there, the kind of commitme...
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CHUCK HAGEL I think our involvement there has destabilized the Middle East. And the longer we stay there, I thin...
CHUCK HAGEL To not question . . . is unpatriotic.
CHUCK HAGEL I think the wise course of action, the compassionate course of action, the better course of action w...
CHUCK HAGEL I think the American people want to have confidence in this administration's national security plans...
CHUCK HAGEL I think the administration is making a terrible mistake in opposing John McCain's amendment on detai...
CHUCK HAGEL I believe this can be done peacefully through diplomacy,
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CHUCK HAGEL If you leave an impression that everything is going well...the next time you come back, your credibi...
CHUCK HAGEL We lose credibility in the face of the world when we say things like, 'Well, don't forget, what happ...
CHUCK HAGEL We are now producing a significant amount of oil from the North Slope of Alaska, all (with) environm...
CHUCK HAGEL Any recommendations regarding climate policy must meet the demands of economic growth and developmen...
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CHUCK HAGEL I don't think it's a big deal, and here's why. I think what's going to be the most important, and wh...
CHUCK HAGEL It should have been done when this whole thing started. Listen to her.
CHUCK HAGEL I think he represents the best of judicial prudence, style and qualifications,
CHUCK HAGEL deserved a far better answer than that flippant response.
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CHUCK HAGEL I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.
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CHUCK HAGEL What we do know now is that the 'E' in E-commerce doesn't stand for 'easy.'
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe we should always assume the worst.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive....
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. An...
CHUCK TANNER The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK [T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth...
CHUCK SIGARS Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.
CHUCK SIGARS You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
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